Event Type Featured Event
September
15sepAll Day17Rest & Renew Retreat for Pastors
Event Details
Rest & Renew Retreat for Pastors September 15-17 | St. Francis Springs Prayer Center Helping Pastors Thrive, a ministry of the
Event Details
Rest & Renew Retreat for Pastors
September 15-17 | St. Francis Springs Prayer Center
Helping Pastors Thrive, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, invites all pastors and staff ministers to gather for a time of rest and renewal with a community of their peers at St. Francis Springs Prayer Center in Stoneville, NC.
The retreat is designed to offer opportunities for worship, spiritual practices, holy conversation with colleagues and time for quiet and rest. It will not include intense educational programming, content about things happening in CBF or CBFNC life or prognostications about post-pandemic church.
Check-in will be from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 15. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. The retreat will end following lunch at noon on Tuesday, September 17.
Additional information on schedule, directions to St. Francis Springs, and opportunities during the retreat will be sent following registration.
$50 individual; $100 couple. Spouses welcome.
Space is very limited; 10 spots available!
Time
September 15, 2024 - September 17, 2024 (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
October
25oct(oct 25)7:00 pm27(oct 27)11:30 amFall Youth Beach Retreat
Event Details
Friday, October 25 – Sunday, October 27 Fort Caswell The annual CBFNC Fall Youth Beach Retreat returns to Fort Caswell in Oak Island
Event Details
Friday, October 25 – Sunday, October 27 
Fort Caswell
The annual CBFNC Fall Youth Beach Retreat returns to Fort Caswell in Oak Island the weekend of October 25-27, 2024. All CBFNC partner churches are invited to bring your youth (grades 6-12) for a weekend filled with worship, Bible study, dance party and lots of free time to play on the beach!
This year’s theme is “Hold On” using Hebrews 10:19-25 as our guiding verse for the weekend to help young people HOLD ON to their identity in Christ, for God who has promised is faithful. The retreat will encourage students to explore what it means to HOLD ON to God, to oneself and to others, and as we claim these things we become more fully the body of Christ in the world.
Meet the Proclaimers and Worship Music Leaders:
Co-Proclaimer: Caleb Foust
Senior Pastor at Piney Grove Baptist Church of Mount Airy
Co-Proclaimer: Mary Beth Foust
Birth Doula, Writer, Educator, Advocate
Co-Worship Music Leader: Blaine Russell
Director of Music, Fletcher United Methodist Church
Co-Worship Music Leader: Christina Goings-Russell
Director of Youth, Fletcher United Methodist Church
COST
SCHEDULE
Friday, October 25
| 7:00pm | Check-in Begins |
| 9:00 | Group Icebreaker |
| 9:30 | Opening Worship |
| 10:15 | Welcome Fellowship |
| 11:00 | In Rooms |
| Midnight | Lights Out |
Saturday, October 26
| 7:00am | Wake Up |
| 7:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 | Church Group Devotion & Bible Study |
| 9:30 | Morning Celebration |
| 10:30 | Group Activity – Olympic Theme |
| 11:30 | Lunch (off campus) |
| 1:00pm | Free Time (off campus, beach, basketball, explore the forts, etc.) |
| 5:30 | Dinner |
| 6:30 | Jr./Sr. Fellowship |
| 7:00 | Evening Worship |
| 8:00 | Church Group Bible Study |
| 9:00 | Group Activity – Dance Party |
| 10:30 | In Rooms |
| 11:00 | Lights Out |
Sunday, October 27
| 7:00am | Wake Up & Pack Up |
| 7:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Church Group Bible Study |
| 10:00 | Closing Worship |
| 11:00 | Pack Bus & Vans |
| 11:30 | Leave for Home |
Registration is open now through October 16!
Time
October 25, 2024 7:00 pm - October 27, 2024 11:30 am(GMT+00:00)
November
14novAll Day15Helping Churches Thrive Creative Workshop Retreat
Event Details
Helping Churches Thrive Creative Workshop Retreat November 14-15 | Catholic Conference Center, Hickory Church in today’s world is complex and
Event Details
Helping Churches Thrive Creative Workshop Retreat
November 14-15 | Catholic Conference Center, Hickory
Church in today’s world is complex and challenging.
But what if churches could embrace their potential to THRIVE instead of accepting the pressure to simply survive?
CBFNC’s Helping Churches Thrive (HCT) program is cultivating opportunities to foster congregational vitality through a series of Creative Workshops Retreats. The interactive retreats are designed to engage congregational leaders and clergy from across our fellowship as they explore new, practical and innovative ways to flourish in ministry.
This is not another program that will leave you with lingering questions. It is a shared learning experience with other CBFNC churches that will empower you to identify, celebrate and grow the characteristics of thriving congregations for your church, all under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Click here to learn more about the characteristics of a Thriving Congregation.
The design of the 24-hour retreat will quickly bring into focus the urgency and profound opportunity of today’s church context. The retreat kicks off at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 14, and wraps up by 2:00 p.m. on Friday, November 15.
The cost is $50 for double occupancy rooms and $100 for single occupancy rooms, with dinner, breakfast, and lunch provided. The retreat will be held at the Catholic Conference Center in Hickory, NC.
Space is limited to 40 participants.
Helping Churches Thrive is funded by a grant from Lily Endowment, Inc’s Thriving Congregations Initiative.
Time
November 14, 2024 - November 15, 2024 (All Day)(GMT+00:00)